The Department of French & Italian will host a conversation hour in French for language teachers after each of the French Center of Excellence lectures in the Spring 2024 semester. We encourage all who are interested to attend and practice your French language skills while discussing important cultural, historical, and linguistic topics.
Please register here for the conversation hour in which you are interested:
Perreau lecture conversation hour - Thursday, February 29 from 6:00pm-7:00pm in Hagerty Hall 206
Klosowska lecture conversation hour - Thursday, March 28 from 6:00pm-7:00pm in Hagerty Hall 206
Boon Cuillé lecture conversation hour - Thursday, April 28 from 6:00pm-7:00pm in Hagerty Hall 206
More information regarding the French Center of Excellence lecture series can be found through the Center's events page here.
These events are sponsored by the Department of French and Italian’s French Center of Excellence, which receives funding from French Cultural Services in the US and the Consulate General of France in Chicago. This series is also supported by the following departments and centers at Ohio State African American & African Studies, History, History of Art, Spanish & Portuguese, Germanic Languages & Literatures, Slavic & Eastern European Languages & Literatures, the Humanities Institute, and the Center for Languages, Literatures, & Cultures.
In December of 2020, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States selected the Department of French and Italian at The Ohio State University to join its prestigious network of Centers of Excellence. OSU’s Center of Excellence has the goal of promoting French and Francophone culture in the Midwest and beyond.